Google to Offer Print-Archives Searches — Google plans to announce on Wednesday that it is offering a service that will permit Internet users to search through the archives of newspapers, magazines and other publications and uncover material that in some cases dates back more than 200 years.

Calm down. Breathe. We hear you. — We've been getting a lot of feedback about Mini-Feed and News Feed. We think they are great products, but we know that many of you are not immediate fans, and have found them overwhelming and cluttered. Other people are concerned that non-friends can see too much about them.

Six Apart Buys Rojo — Blogging company Six Apart will soon announce it has purchased Rojo, the web-based feed reader, for undisclosed terms. — Six Apart won't be adding an aggregator based on Rojo, but instead incorporating some elements of the technology into its existing products, according to Six Apart CEO Barak Berkowitz.

Hewlett-Packard Targeted Board In Leak Probe — Resigned director says company fraudulently obtained phone records — In a remarkable bit of corporate cloak and dagger, Hewlett-Packard launched a probe of its own board of directors in a bid to determine who was responsible for a media leak earlier …

Silicon Valley to Receive Free Wi-Fi — A consortium of technology companies, including I.B.M. and Cisco Systems, announced plans Tuesday for a vast wireless network that would provide free Internet access to big portions of Silicon Valley and the surrounding region as early as next year.

IronPython 1.0 released today! — I'm extremely happy to announce that we have released IronPython 1.0 today! — I started work on IronPython almost 3 years ago. My initial motivation for the project was to understand all of the reports that I read on the web claiming that the Common Language Runtime …

Results of the Google Desktop Gadget Contest! — We received a number of creative submissions for the Google Desktop Gadget Contest. In fact, because there were so many great gadgets to choose from, we've decided to recognize a few additional standouts. — Honorable Mention:

Global Text Project brings wiki textbooks to the world — Free textbooks for everyone—that's the goal of the Global Text Project, an initiative spearheaded by Rick Watson, a professor in the University of Georgia Terry College of Business. Watson's goal is to produce a library of 1,000 textbooks …

New chip promises better AI performance in games — A new company called AIseek announced what it describes as the world's first dedicated processor for artificial intelligence. Called the Intia Processor, the AI chip would work in conjunction with optimized titles to improve nonplayer character AI.

MSN Adds Behavioral Targeting To Search — MSN TUESDAY BEGAN INCORPORATING BEHAVIORAL targeting features into its paid search program, adCenter. With the new service, advertisers can arrange to have their pay-per-click ads shown to users who MSN has identified as likely purchasers based on their Web-surfing history.

Finding Great Developers — Where are all those great developers? — The first time you try to fill an open position, if you're like most people, you place some ads, maybe browse around the large online boards, and get a ton of resumes. — As you go through them, you think, "hmm …